Table of Contents

Introduction Rhythm, Stress, Metre The Sounds of English The Poem's Shape Content Poetry in Society Translating Poetry Conclusion List of Addresses and Publications Index.

About the Author

Dinah Livingstone is a poet, translator (from French, Spanish, German and Italian) and editor of the magazine Sofia. With 3 Arts Council Writers' Awards for her poetry, her ninth poetry collection is The Vision Splendid (Katabasis 2014) and her latest prose book is The Making of Humanity: Poetic Vision and Kindness (2017). Her first translation was Nature and Grace by Karl Rahner (Sheed and Ward 1963) and more recently she translated 3 volumes of Pope Francis's Morning Homilies (Orbis 2013-16) and new introductions to Walter Kasper's 2 classic christological works (Continuum 2011, 2012). She has a special interest in Latin American theology and poetry. She lives in London.